Lee Miller retrospective Paris
A major Lee Miller retrospective opens in Paris at the Musée d’Art Moderne (April 10–Aug 2) with over 250 original black‑and‑white photographs, including pivotal travel images. (travelandtourworld.com) It’s a rich primer if you’re into travel and documentary B&W framing. (travelandtourworld.com)
The Paris presentation is the touring stop of a major retrospective initiated by Tate Britain and organised in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Lee Miller Archives. (mam.paris.fr)) Tate Britain first mounted the survey in autumn 2025, presenting roughly 230 vintage and modern prints alongside unseen archival material and ephemera. (tate.org.uk)) The Musée d’Art Moderne’s press pack names director Fabrice Hergott and lists curators Hilary Floe (Tate Britain) and Fanny Schulmann (Musée d’Art Moderne), with Saskia Flower and Adélaïde Lacotte as assisting curators on the project. (mam.paris.fr)) Paris’s presentation is installed as a six‑part sequence that traces Miller from her New York modelling and Parisian surrealist experiments through fieldwork in Egypt, a London studio period, and her wartime reportage across liberated Europe. (mam.paris.fr)) Tate’s programme highlights newly recovered works that illustrate Miller’s role in developing solarisation—citing the newly discovered Sirène (c.1930–32) as an example—and the exhibition also includes film extracts such as Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un poète. (tate.org.uk)) The curatorial package is scheduled to continue as a tri‑city tour, with the Paris installation forming part of the same project that will be shown later in the United States at the Art Institute of Chicago. (mam.paris.fr))
